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...cube has been used to illustrate group theory in Harvard courses, but it has not been used as the basis for an entire course, David B. Mumford, professor of Mathematics said yesterday. "It could possibly be the germ for a math tutorial, though," Mumford added...
...Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, people even talked about an accidental leak from American chemical warfare weapons which they be lieve are stored at the base. Spanish officials laughed off such charges. Said one: "If this is the most toxic germ weapon the Americans can manufacture, I don't think their enemies have much to fear...
...most worked-out emblem of Leonardo's pessimism occurs toward the end of his life, in the 1510s, with the deluge drawings. In them, the spiral that was his sign for life becomes the symbol, and instrument, of ultimate destruction. Perhaps the germ of these drawings lay in his witnessing, as Clark has suggested, some great flood resembling the one that hit Florence in 1966. In those rhythmical, abstract spirals, like vast shavings from a plane, that emanate from the tumbling mountain, the exploding lake and the destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter...
Life would be tough under the Kremlin. At the same time, it's rough under the Pentagon. Even worse under vast stockpiles of germ warfare, atomic and hydrogen weaponry. Odds for survival are likely as good or better if we keep only police, national-coastguard and disarm unilaterally. If pushed out of some markets by Soviets, we probably can make that up by billions saved on the defense establishment. If U.S. must have a nuclear unbrella, use that of Britain and France. Henry Ratliff July...
...past few years, Cox has been reporting the other side of the coin--violence by the Argentinian government. Cox describes the current situation in medical terms: it's as if the government created a germ to wipe out left-wing violence and terrorism and to restore society to "normalcy." The germ proved effective, "destroying" every person and group capable of violence. But the germ itself used terror and it still exists, thriving today on even the most innocent citizens--the teacher who mentioned Marx to a class once, or siblings of those associated with leftists groups, and on journalists...